Egypt plans to start supplying Lebanon with natural gas soon as part of a plan agreed by Cairo, Beirut, Amman, and Damascus to ease a crippling power crisis, said by Egyptian and Lebanese ministers on Tuesday.
Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayad (...)
Syria's defense minister met Sunday with Jordan's army chief in Amman after Syrian troops captured several rebel-held areas near Jordan's border, state media reported.
The Hala Akhbar news site, which is linked to Jordan's military, reported that (...)
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Syria's Bashar Assad have met in Moscow to discuss the cooperation between their armies and how to continue operations to gain control of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, state media in Damascus reported on (...)
Lebanon formed a new government after 13 months of political feuding and economic meltdown, exacerbated by the Beirut Port blast of August 2020.
The names of the cabinet ministers generated heated debate in public and political circles. Although, as (...)
Jordan is hosting on Wednesday a meeting for energy ministers of Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to discuss the transportation of Egyptian gas to Lebanon for electricity generation, state-owned broadcaster Mamlaka reported on Tuesday.
The United States (...)
The energy ministers of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan agreed on Wednesday on a roadmap to supply Lebanon with Egyptian natural gas to generate electricity amid the ongoing Lebanese energy crisis.
The announcement came during a joint press (...)
Amman will host a ministerial meeting that involves the energy ministers of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan on Wednesday 8 August, to discuss the transport of Egyptian gas to Lebanon for electricity generation, state-owned news agency Mamlaka (...)
The last step to the official establishment of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) was taken on 2 September after President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi ratified the forum's charter and approved Egypt's membership.
The charter, signed by the forum's (...)
A high-level Lebanese delegation visited Syria some days ago in the first such visit to Damascus since relations were frozen due to the Arab and Western boycott of the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The visit by Zeina Akar, (...)
A senior Lebanese government delegation arrived in Syria on Saturday for talks expected to focus on the crippling fuel crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon. It marked the highest official visit since Syria's civil war began more than a decade (...)
Crystal clear, translucent waters and gently undulating soft white sand are embraced by stones. The picturesque green mountainous backdrop with perfect blue skies does not suggest Algeria. And few outside the North African country have heard of the (...)
Baghdad hosted a Conference for Cooperation and Partnership on 28 August, a first of its kind to bring together various Arab countries with Iran, Turkey and France. The purpose was to reduce regional tensions in order to tackle, in a collective (...)
Iran and Syria vowed on Sunday to take ``mighty steps'' to confront U.S. sanctions imposed on the two regional allies, saying their relations will strengthen under Iran's new leadership.
The announcement was made by Iran's new Foreign Minister (...)
Despite its military superiority and its declared intention to take control of the southern city of Daraa, the last stronghold of the opposition in the south of the country, the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has thus far not been (...)
The militant Hezbollah group said it fired a barrage of rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border on Friday, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier.
Israel said it was firing back after at (...)
An explosion at the entrance of military barracks on the western edge of the Syrian capital Wednesday set a bus on fire, killed its driver and sent black smoke billowing over the area, Syrian state media reported.
Initial reports on state media said (...)
After considerable Western and international pressure, numerous warnings from humanitarian agencies, and a Russian-US summit meeting, Russia refrained from using its veto to prevent the passage of a UN Security Council Resolution to extend the use (...)
It was a regular hot summer noon in Cairo when, instead of barricading themselves in air-conditioned shelters, people lined up at the Egypt International Exhibition Center (EIEC), e-tickets ready on their mobile phones while volunteers received them (...)
The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about.
Abu Alaa (...)
Russia's U.N. ambassador on Wednesday called a proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq to Syria's northeast for delivering humanitarian aid 'a non-starter.'' He also refused to say what will happen to the only crossing now in operation, from (...)
Somewhere in Time is a short fiction film about loneliness, age and isolation. An old man is alone in his room, in a flat, in a huge building surrounded by other giant concrete giants. Lonely towards the end of his life, he recalls his sweetest (...)
Russia previewed a showdown with the United Nations, United States and Western nations Wednesday over the delivery of humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, rejecting their warnings that closing the only border crossing will (...)
The "year of wheat" campaign pushed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in jeopardy after low rainfall risked leaving an import gap of at least 1.5 million tonnes, according to preliminary estimates by officials and experts.
The agricultural blow (...)
Iconic Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, has died today at the age of 87 in his home in Harefield outside of London, leaving behind a rich poetic legacy with 40 works of poetry and a dozen of prose, literary criticism and a memoir.
Youssef died on Saturday (...)
The head of Israel's domestic security service issued a rare warning on Saturday of possible violence during one of the most politically charged periods in decades, with the country on the verge of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its (...)
